No Place Like Home: A Marriage In Trouble Romance
Emerald Sawyer has always been my home.
She was the one who saw something in me when everyone else saw a hockey goon who couldn't even read properly. When the world called me stupid, she called me capable. When I had nothing, she sacrificed to give me everything.
Now, I'm Hayden "Haymaker" Sawyer-the league's most feared enforcer. My violence goes viral. My fists pay the bills. Every fight, every brutal hit, every autograph, every picture, every deal-I do it all for her.
But somewhere along the way, I lost sight of her. I missed the warning signs-the threats, the harassment, the shaming, the strangers who hate her simply for being mine.
When she showed me, I told her it didn't matter. It was jealousy. It was nothing.
I told her that she was safe.
I was wrong.
The losses started piling up. The fans raged. My anger grew. My fights became more reckless. My temper snapped, and I said careless words that pushed away my entire world.
While I'm smiling for the cameras, my wife was brutally attacked by a fan.
While I'm protecting my career, my Emerald was fighting for her life.
Every moment I'd ignored her, every time I'd put hockey before her, every careless word I'd ever said-all of it hit me at once.
Now I see everything.
She's alive, but terrified. She doesn't trust me. She doesn't feel safe with me. She flinches when she sees my jersey.
I will never forgive myself.
But I cannot give up.
I will prove to the only person who ever saw me-the only person who ever loved the real me-that I am still worthy of her. That I can put her first, that I can make things right, that I will fight with everything I am to keep her safe, to bring her back to me.
I demand vengeance for my wife, against everyone who ever harmed her-and that includes me.
Because Emerald Sawyer is my home, my heart, and my everything.
This fight-for her-is the most important fight of my life.
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